@GryphonSK Oppressor is a term often used my Marxists....

@GryphonSK Oppressor is a term often used my Marxists. The history of Marxism is red with the blood of those that disagreed.

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@sfehl @GryphonSK
I'm not a Marxist, but I'm aware enough of Marxism to understand that Marxism is not inherently violent or oppressive; many Marxist thinkers and activists have advocated for nonviolent means of social change and have opposed oppressive regimes. I suggest you learn more about Marxism so you can have a proper understanding of it.

13 May at 1:18 | Open on mastodon.social

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@Radical_EgoCom @sfehl @GryphonSK Other than the works of Marx himself, where should we go to find Marxism that isn't Leninism? Seems like once he got hold of it, Communism just became a new suit for a new Tsar. (Even more so under Stalin, and now Putin is trying to emulate Stalin without even pretending to be Communist)

Should we look at Trotsky?

13 May at 1:47 | Open on sfba.social

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@andytiedye @sfehl @GryphonSK
Hell no, not Trotsky! Anton Pannekoek, Daniel Guérin, Paul Mattick, Cornelius Castoriadis, Murray Bookchin, Sam Dolgoff, and Maurice Brinton are some notable Libertarian Marxist authors to look into to learn about Marxism. Rosa Luxemburg, while not a Libertarian Marxist, is also a very good author who wrote on Marxism and critiqued the authoritarianism and bureaucracy within the socialist movement of her time.

13 May at 1:57 | Open on mastodon.social

Donald Ball

@andytiedye @Radical_EgoCom @sfehl @GryphonSK Bakunin, but more pertinently, the expansions on Marx’s analyses from thinkers in the global South.

13 May at 3:54 | Open on triangletoot.party

argv minus one

@sfehl

That's like saying vegetarianism is evil because Hitler was a vegetarian.

@GryphonSK

13 May at 2:04 | Open on mstdn.party

the cake is offline

@sfehl @GryphonSK Capitalism has killed literally billions. Far, FAR more than communism. Stop being a bootlicking collaborator and stand for the people.

13 May at 4:04 | Open on infosec.exchange

adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

@cakeisnotalie @sfehl@mastodon.social @GryphonSK

Brand new account pushing right-wing BS , just block and move on. It's a bot and you're giving it the engagement it craves.

13 May at 5:28 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Dave

@cakeisnotalie @sfehl @GryphonSK

Colonialism.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Each of these capitalist events have a consequential death toll that dwarfs the entire history of all forms of Communism.

13 May at 5:42 | Open on mastodon.nz